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From: marlor@gear.sublink.ORG (Marco Lorenzini)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: elm on SCO Open Desktop
Message-ID: <1133@gear.sublink.ORG>
Date: 4 Apr 90 19:55:30 GMT
References: <1990Mar26.133011.10960@trevan.uucp>
Organization: L.S.Meccanica srl, Zola Predosa (BO) - Italy
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in article <1990Mar26.133011.10960@trevan.uucp>, trevor@trevan.uucp (Trevor J. Harris) says:
> 
> Tried running elm on SCO opendesktop but it keeps giving the error
> message Folder is corrupt !! I cant readit. Looking the message in
> /usr/spool/mail all looks ok. The message was sent from ELM ok and
> can be read by mail ok.
> 

If you want to use ELM on Sco Unix must replace the local mailer with
smail or edit the /usr/spool/mail/.... file to remove the four control's
characters with a little script shell like this:

---------------------------------------------
mail=/usr/spool/mail/$LOGNAME
ed - $mail > /dev/null <<!
1,s/^A^A^A^A/              # Please, before use this script, replace the 
w                          # ^A with "Control A" characters
q
!
elm
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